View Full Version : Pet Hamsters = BANNED!
The PC brigrade have another outburst!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/oct/07/children.health.pets
I used to have rusian dwarf hamsters many years ago i used to hate having to take em out to clean there cage, they used to take great joy in seeing who could bite my hand first. little bleeders.
they didnt last very long :twisted:
Children should be kept in a sealed bubble so that nothing can happen to them, the poor little things.
/sarcasm.
how are they going to ban all the hedgehogs kids see in the street from time to time???
Good... why would you want a pet hamster?
How do kids ever manage to grow up with such risks arround every corner?
You dont grow up unless you break your arm, nearly get run over and all these thngs, its part of what makes you grow up.
wonderlust
07-10-08, 19:40
I never broke any bones as a child, and the only bone I broke as an adult is my nose (twice).
I broke my ribs playing rugby when i was school captain, and i also had a scafollding pole hit me on the head ANND i also got dragged down the grass verge in lincoln, with my leg caught between the wheel and the main body of a ride on lawn mower
Ahh those were the days :P
The only major thing i've broken is my ankle. Someone jumped into the side of my leg when I was at primary school and it ended up with foot being angled so that my toes pointed 90 degrees to the left and the sole of my foot was facing backwards instead of down.
I didnt really get what had happened and was in alot of pain, and looked at my foot and thought "that doesnt look right", so i tried to fix it myself and put it back into place!! Which hurt :lol: But I'm actually glad I did it then while it was still really painful anyway rather than wait till I was at the hospital. I ended up fracturing my foot, ankle, the bottom of my shin (all of that was done when I was first jumped into) and snapping off the 2 sticky out ball joints off either side of my ankle (I think I did that bit.. :lol: ). Suffice to say, I have a weak left ankle now :lol:
The most ridiculous thing is that i remember it happening at the beginning of the lunchtime, and I was left all afternoon to do work being told "its just a twisted ankle, it'll be ok soon". 6 Hours later, my parents were home from work and I got a mate of mine who stayed with me in school till 6pm to run to my house and get my parents (no mobiles in those days! :lol: )
Ah well.. its a good story to tell! :D
The only major thing i've broken is my ankle. Someone jumped into the side of my leg when I was at primary school and it ended up with foot being angled so that my toes pointed 90 degrees to the left and the sole of my foot was facing backwards instead of down.
I didnt really get what had happened and was in alot of pain, and looked at my foot and thought "that doesnt look right", so i tried to fix it myself and put it back into place!! Which hurt :lol: But I'm actually glad I did it then while it was still really painful anyway rather than wait till I was at the hospital. I ended up fracturing my foot, ankle, the bottom of my shin (all of that was done when I was first jumped into) and snapping off the 2 sticky out ball joints off either side of my ankle (I think I did that bit.. :lol: ). Suffice to say, I have a weak left ankle now :lol:
The most ridiculous thing is that i remember it happening at the beginning of the lunchtime, and I was left all afternoon to do work being told "its just a twisted ankle, it'll be ok soon". 6 Hours later, my parents were home from work and I got a mate of mine who stayed with me in school till 6pm to run to my house and get my parents (no mobiles in those days! :lol: )
Ah well.. its a good story to tell! :D
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/images/smilies/naw.gif :chairfall:
was round at a mates the other night, and he has a pet hamster with all the cage, tunnels etc. He said "the f***ing thing is evil watch this!" to whit he slightly poked his car keys through the cage bars and the hammy attacked the keys with such ferocity i thought i'd have nightmares. :cry:
Honestly it was possessed......possessed i tells ya!
was round at a mates the other night, and he has a pet hamster with all the cage, tunnels etc. He said "the f***ing thing is evil watch this!" to whit he slightly poked his car keys through the cage bars and the hammy attacked the keys with such ferocity i thought i'd have nightmares. :cry:
Honestly it was possessed......possessed i tells ya!
Lucky it wasn't your fingers :twisted:
never broke any bones :)
had stitches 7 in my hand thanks to a broken beer bottle and 36 when i had my wisdom teeth out.
no stitches and no broken bones here :D
wonderlust
08-10-08, 14:23
only dental stiches (impacted wisdom teeth)
Broke my thumb blocking a kick from one of my friends when i was in school.
Tore the ligaments & tendons. roller skating :( and then again coming out of college :( :(
had stitches in my finger after accidently putting it through a window. (was a accident)
Mine have all been pretty minor.
Only bone I have broken is my left pinkie finger, and when I say 'broken' I realy mean 'chipped a little tiny bit off'. Got it trapped in a door when I was about 6, the door was fully closed with my finger in it, good job your bones are so soft at that age!
Other thing was at age 7 I had some stitches in the bridge of my nose becase I was on a seesaw and smacked my head on the handle. I was knocked out pretty good but nothing broken. Still have a little scar there which most people think is just from glasses.
Oh and then there was that other thing when I was 14 and got shoved into a door and cut my head open on the padlock catch (square sticking out bit of metal with a hole in it for the padlock). Blood was spurting all over and I left a trail of blood to the sick bay :P You can feel on the top of my head where theres still a bit of a lump.
MODS, can we split this topic to one that is titled "What injuries have you sustained over the years?" please.
I reckon it could run a few pages.....just from my posts alone 8)
nah it's just natural thread drift :)
hamsters = personal injury = evolution = winner
I had a hamster which bit me once. It just kinda dangled there looking at me with its teeth sunk in, then it let go, must have thought: "Oh right! Its you! Hand that feeds etc. Sorry!"
See? I was bitten by a hamster and am perfectly normal :p
I got run over with a push bike and fractured my skull. Lost a finger nail when I dropped a boulder on my hand messing about. Fell in the sewerage beds doing a dare. Fractured my ankle and broke a toe. That's about it!
wonderlust
09-10-08, 19:21
Hmm Have I just been very lucky?
I have been riding motorbikes since I was 17 (nearly 25 years) Fallen off acouple of times when I was a kid, but never broke anything
lol you and me both Wonderlust, i fell of every motorbike i owned, slid down the road on my butt doing 60+ when a tw@t in a lorry pulled out in front of me (didn't see me apparently :S ). I have fallen out of trees / upstairs widows as a kid and the worst i suffered was a sprained ankle, must be the generation we hail from eh ;)
wonderlust
09-10-08, 19:48
Lol you're not an old f@rt like me then are you?
lol not quite as old as you (if my maths is correct i make you 40ish ;) i wont say exactly the others might not be able to work it out ) but not far off you have 4 or 5 years on me :lol:
I used to own a rd350 lc2 ypvs, there can't be many left on the roads now.
wonderlust
09-10-08, 20:12
it's in my profile for all to see, i'm 41
lol 41 and proud, so you have "only" 3 years on me then.
that makes me and mac124 the same age then.
Duuring the wou-oorrr! 8)
Too many injuries too mention.......thats why i suggested a split topic.
hehe "when i was a lad..."
these wipper-snappers don't know they're born ya know!
wipper-snappers! LOL top phrase :chairfall:
wonderlust
24-10-08, 18:03
another reason for banning hamsters
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Runaway_hamster_back_in_custody&in_article_id=372311&in_page_id=2
how much did that cost the tax payers?
Wow! I like animals but It is hard to believe they would do all that over a hamster. I would have thought it was the owners responsibility to coax it out!
Meh. Pay the firefighters to sit about playing cards or pay them to rescue a hamster. Might as well use them if they aren't busy.
If there's a fire I'm pretty sure they would hightail it out of there.
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